Ethnomedicine
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https://doi.org/10.47854/anthropen.v1i1.51288Keywords:
Traditional medicine, Medical anthropology, Local knowledge, Disease, Ethnopharmacology, Health, Care, BodyAbstract
A term coined in the 1960s, ethnomedicine originated in 1917 with the work of W.H. Rivers, who was interested in the ways of healing in non-Western societies. In the social sciences and humanities, it is understood as the study of traditional medicines and the internal logic of a culture that emits behaviours, discourses and representations relating to illness. In medicine, it takes the form of a synthesis between Western medicine and the traditional medicines of non-Western countries, from which emerges a holistic, multidisciplinary ethnomedical approach.
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